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In the Dad's Army episode 'Shooting Pains', (1968), Captain Mainwaring claims that one of his troops cannot speak to the Major because he's a Polish émigré named 'Paderewski Shostakovich'. Would the composers Paderewski and Shostakovich have been household names in 1940s or 1960s Britain?

by /u/EnclavedMicrostate in /r/AskHistorians

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